Weekly Wag

Welcome to this week’s edition of our weekly news and events roundup of all things Whippet-related.

This weekend’s run in memory of Jessy Scarpone.

As many of you have heard, Jessy passed away this week. She has been on the team since 2016 and was the team MVP in 2017. She had moved away in 2018 for graduate school, but was back in New York City this summer for an internship.

Both of our Saturday runs in Manhattan and Brooklyn will be in her honor. The starting location of the Manhattan run has changed (see here for details: https://www.meetup.com/dashing-whippets/events/mdppbryzlbfb/). We will have a few people say some words about Jessy and then will meet at Amity at 10:30 for a get-together.

Ingrid Wells (29:04) led the Open Women’s Team to 3rd place at the 2019 NYRR Team Championships 5M, placing 6thin her AG. Khia Kurtenbach (29:28) and Ellyn Atkinson (29:43) placed 3rd and 4th in their AG. Jessica Chichester (29:48) and Emmi Aguillard (30:06) both placed 10th in their AG, while Samantha Creath placed 9th, finishing in 30:06. They were followed by Laura Gann (30:11); Megan Keane (30:17); Genevieve Coffey (31:19) and Kathleen Servidea (31:37-3rd AG).

Cameron Coneys (26:00) and Jeremy Arthur (26:06) were the first two finishers for the Open Men’s Team, which got 5thplace. Sam Geha (26:11); Mark Dani (26:32) and Karlo Mendoza (27:02) placed 4th, 1st and 8th in their AG. They were followed by David Lamb (26:33); James Stucker (27:05); Emmett Gross (27:05); MacLean O’Donnell (27:17) and Spencer Zidarich (27:33).

Kathleen Servidea (31:37) scored for both the Open Women’s Team and the Women’s Masters team, which placed 1st. Julie McElroy (32:19) and Barbara Mann (33:28) placed 1st and 5th in their AG. They were followed by Satomi Sugishita (36:18-6th AG) and Carol Stickler (37:27).

Mark Dani (26:32-1st AG) placed 4th in the Open Men’s Team and 1st in the Men’s Masters Team, which took 2nd place. Jordan Wolff (28:51) and Matthew Wong (29:17) placed 6th and 8th in their AG. Billy Barone (29:44) and Scott Batten (30:44) placed 3rd and 8th in their AG.

Noel Slater and Christopher Pareja placed 9th and 4th in their AG, finishing in 33:00 and 35:16.

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Matt co-founder of the Dashing Whippets with Rich since May 2009. Matt has been running since joining his high school cross country team his sophomore year. Since being with the team, Matt has completed 3 marathons with a 2:57:24 PR at the 2013 Boston Marathon and many other races, including a 4:48 mile at the 2015 Fifth Avenue Mile and a 1:18:53 half marathon in the 2014 NYC Half Marathon. Matt lives in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn with his wife and twin daughters. Read more at Board of Directors